Introduction
This video addresses the common struggles of being broke and emphasizes that financial hardship is often a result of daily choices rather than circumstances. It offers actionable advice to shift mindset and habits to achieve financial success.
Key Points to Stop Being Broke
1. Being Broke Is a Choice, Not a Circumstance
- Avoid blaming background, upbringing, or external factors.
- Use hardships as motivation rather than excuses.
- Take ownership of your life and decisions.
2. Value Your Time Like a Rich Person
- Time is the most expensive asset, more valuable than money.
- Avoid wasting time on social media, TV, or distractions.
- Be intentional and selective about how you spend your time.
- Replace entertainment with education and skill-building. Consider exploring our article on 10 Effective Strategies to Improve Your Financial Literacy for more insights on maximizing your time and resources.
3. Stop Spending Money to Appear Rich
- Avoid buying liabilities like unnecessary clothes or luxury items.
- Focus on investing in assets that generate income.
- Think long-term: sacrifice short-term pleasures for future financial freedom. For a deeper understanding of this concept, check out Transform Your Financial Future: The Power of Purpose in Business.
4. Shift Focus from Saving to Earning
- Instead of asking "How can I save money?" ask "How can I make more money?"
- Open your mind to new income opportunities and business ideas. This mindset aligns with the principles discussed in Unlocking Success: The Power of a Growth Mindset Explained.
5. Invest in Yourself
- Prioritize spending on education, courses, mentorships, and personal development.
- Investing in knowledge accelerates success and shortens the learning curve. For more on personal growth, see Mastering Focus and Personal Growth: A Comprehensive Guide.
- Avoid spending on superficial things and focus on growth.
6. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
- Taking risks is essential to break free from financial stagnation.
- Embrace discomfort and be willing to learn and try new things.
- Fear of failure or risk keeps many people stuck.
7. Surround Yourself with Successful People
- Your social circle influences your mindset and habits.
- Spend time with entrepreneurs and motivated individuals.
- Avoid friends who reinforce a "broke mindset" or complacency.
8. Take Full Responsibility for Your Life
- Acknowledge that your financial situation is your responsibility.
- Track your money, habits, and time usage.
- Be intentional and serious about your goals and actions.
Conclusion
Changing your financial situation requires a serious commitment to new habits, mindset shifts, and intentional living. By valuing your time, investing in yourself, taking risks, and surrounding yourself with the right people, you can transform your life and achieve financial freedom. The video encourages viewers to identify which habits they need to change and take immediate action. For further insights on avoiding common pitfalls, consider reading 28 Ways to Stay Poor: Inversion Thinking for Success.
This summary captures the essential advice and motivational insights from the video, providing a clear roadmap for viewers seeking to improve their financial lives.
[Music] If you are tired of being broke, making excuses, see every single person on
social media live the life that you want while you're stuck in situations in a life that you know you deserve more.
This video is for you because being broke is just not about money. It's about the choices that you make every
single day. So, let's dive right into it. And while we're on this drive, I'm going to go pick up a friend. We are
going to be shooting a vlog. So on the way, let me talk to you guys. So I made a list of bullet points that I want to
go over with you guys of things that I did in the past that kept me broke and how I changed it. And I see so many
people doing the same things. The faster you change all these things, the faster you're going to get to making millions
of dollars no matter what age you are. Number one, being broke is a choice. It's not a circumstance. So many people
have that mindset like I come from this background. I live in this country. My father is this. My mother is this. I was
not raised with money. I'm a shy person. I'm not the smartest. I have so much going on. I had to provide for. It's
like people think that life only happens to them. And they're the only people that had the worst case scenario, the
horrible circumstances, horrible upbringing, hard decisions, crisis throughout their life. But most of the
successful people that I know had to actually go through a hard life and a crisis and they use that fuel. They use
that in them to actually go ahead and do it. If you had a nice life, a normal life, you would be less excited or less
inspired to actually go and create something because you're like, "Okay, my life is okay. You know, my dad has
money, my mom has money." But use the hard life that you had, not as an excuse why you can't get everything, but as an
excuse that everyone that's going to come after you will have their life forever changed. So, for example, when I
was living in Canada, I was like, "Oh, I'm young. My English is broken. I never had a job before, but now I need to work
a job. What am I going to do?" I was through that phase where, "No, I'm not good at anything. I'm not the prettiest.
That was what was going in my mind. But then I'm like, okay, well, all of these things that I just said, there's a
solution. Find the job right now. Get so good at number one, sales, cuz it's the best thing that you can do as a woman is
learn sales, learn how to speak. Number two, I made sure to practice and speak only English for years, so I can
actually remove that and I can be qualified. I started learning other skills. I started listening to mindset
to listen to a lot of coaches on YouTube. I started having general knowledge so I can be a confident woman
where I know I have value to provide. So no matter what the situation is, I'm like okay I can just blame everything
around me in my life or I can take ownership and be like you know what okay well this is the real facts but how can
I change the facts? How can I change my behavior? What do I have to do to get to my goals instead of blaming everything
and everyone without having your life ever be changed? When you give power away to a circumstance, to a family, to
a friend, to a job, to a gender, anything, that's you giving power away. And power means you're going to be broke
forever. So, never give the power away that a circumstance or how you were brought up or whatever is the reason why
you're going to stay broke for the rest of your life. And then what I also used to do is I realized that I was spending
time like a broke person. Rich people understand that time is the most expensive asset we have. It's not money,
it's time. Because once you know what to do with that time, your rate, your average per hour increases. Most people
when they're working minimum wage jobs, they're getting paid maybe $12 an hour, $15 an hour, $20 an hour. That is broke.
Once you realize I'm valued at way more than that, then you start being very careful how you spend time. So when I
was broke, what was I doing? Scrolling on social media and scrolling and scrolling, watching Netflix for hours
and hours, almost escaping my life and going out with friends and just doing whatever just to have time pass by cuz I
was stressed from work. I would always take the longer route like even with flight, for example, I'm booking a
flight. I would take something with like two, three stops because that will just be cheaper, like $100 cheaper, but it
will add an extra five hours to the flight. But to me, time was not expensive. And as soon as I started
understanding that time is more expensive and that's how I'm going to be rich for a very long time. If I value my
time and be very selective in what I do with my time, that's how you're going to realize there's so much time in the day
and you're just wasting it doing nonsense. So be very careful what you do with your time. Do not scroll on social
media. Even videos on YouTube, I am very selective who I follow, what videos I listen to. That is all time spent into
me. Do you guys know what's the average time human beings have on this earth? Like the average time. Let me ask
ChibiT. So basically if you average 73 years which is the the average some people of course die younger. You have
876 months. That's it. If you subtract childhood where you don't have freedom 0 to 18 time spent sleeping about 25 years
total. Time spent. Why did Chad Gvity give me all this information? Time spent working a job you don't love.
Why is my Chad GBT so savage? And it knows that people are working jobs they don't love, commuting, chores, screen
time, obligation. Wow. It said you might only truly be alive for 8 to 15 years of it. Wow. That's
actually your life. The years where you feel awake, powerful, and fulfilled, and free are only 8 to 15 years. Cuz the
rest you're either sleeping, you're either a baby, or you're either working a job that you don't love. So the
question isn't how long do we live? It's how much of your life are you actually living? Most people don't die at 73,
they die at 30 and live another 40 years on repeat. Why is my Chad GBT literally the most savage human being? not human
being the most savage person ever. Most people choose to live these 8 to 15 years being broke with less options with
less everything in this life. That just sounds horrible. But anyway, back to what I was saying. You're spending so
much time like a broke person. Learn how to spend time like a rich person. selective, intentional, dedicated,
knowing what we're doing with our time and entertainment. When you're broke, cut it all out. Replace it all with
education so you can get to your goals faster. You watch TV, cut it out. You go watch sports, cut it out. You watch Tik
Tok and Instagram, cut it out. Unless you're actually learning mindset, values, business, other than that, cut
it out. Cut all that out. Time is expensive. Another thing we have to stop doing is spending so much money to just
look rich on basically liabilities, things that don't generate income, buying clothes from random stores. And
even if it's not expensive, it always ends up adding up. That's what poor people do. They spend money on luxury,
on designer, on clothes, just wasting that money that they cannot afford. Technically, instead of putting it and
stacking it into assets that they know is going to make them more money. When you're broke, I need you to stop
thinking of pleasure, of, you know, living now, of enjoying now. I need to start thinking three, five years ahead.
these years that you're going to sacrifice of oh I need to you know feel good so I need to spoil myself replace
that with how can I make sure in the next 3 years I never have to work a job again because I put so much into assets
that will generate me income and that doesn't have to be like oh I need to buy a house maybe you can't afford a house
but find something within your means that you can spend money on that will create income for you whatever it is
There's so many ways to make money in these dates. Make sure you understand them, research, learn, and then start
doing that instead of just spending money on nonsense cuz that's really what we all do. Now, broke people, what do
they focus on? They focus on saving. Rich people, they focus on earning and that's how they actually got rich. I
want you to remove this from your language. How can I save money to afford this? Remove it. Take it out of your
mind. Take it out of your vocabulary. always replace it. How can I make more money to afford this? That should be
always what we say. What are extra things that I can do? How can I make more money in this short period of time?
Once you start asking these questions, your mind will open to more possibilities on how people are making
money because now it's like an open receiver, an open radar. You see other people doing other businesses and you
start getting inspired. You start noticing trends. You start noticing how is the rich getting richer. And that's
how you are going to get out of being broke. Stop asking how can I save? Matter of fact, stop saving. Which
brings me to my next point, which is broke people do everything but invest in themselves. They think that is the most
expensive thing. They would rather spend the same money on dinners, the same money on outfits, the same money on
vacations. As soon as money is about investing in themselves in knowledge, a mastermind, a seminar, an event, a boot
camp, a program, a course, a mentorship, suddenly, oh, it's $1,000, that's too expensive. I cannot afford it.
Meanwhile, we know that $1,000, you're going to spend it in one way or other. The less you invest in yourself, that's
literally how you're never going to be rich in your life. I have literally spent over $250,000 in the past 3 years
investing into me courses, mastermind from people that I look up to and you get in proximity and then you learn from
them because you pay. They're not going to just teach you. You pay so they can teach you everything. So you can have a
shortcut to your success. You can achieve things that takes people a decade. You can achieve it in a year to
two years because you paid your way forward. The number one thing that have got me to where I am is I invest in
myself, in my knowledge, not in myself as in cute little outfits more than anyone does. And then broke people don't
realize their comfort zone is what's keeping them basically broke when they want to make sure the due diligence. Oh,
I'm so broke so I cannot afford to have any risks. You not taking any risks, you staying in your comfort and safe zone is
what's going to keep you broke for a very long time. You have to take every risk possible. Learn and do the craziest
things to get out of your situation. You have to try so many things because what's the worst case scenario? I always
tell people when I was a waitress that was the worst case scenario. There is no other worst case. What is below a
waitress, right? It could be another job, another business, but making that much money was the worst case scenario.
So, I was not afraid to learn about new things. I was not afraid to ask questions, to look cringy, to look like
a beginner because I was a beginner. Who am I trying to fool if my life was not matching up? I don't care what everyone
else thinks. I care about how do I actually see my life, which I was broke and I was tired of being broke. So, I
made sure I take every single risk. I was the most open-minded person and I was like being in discomfort just being
yeah okay I'm just gonna be a waitress and make $3,000 a month and just be okay and maybe you know I should not be
greedy that literally what all the people that I was serving with set and did and five years later when I go back
to the same restaurant I used to work at I look at where they are the same exact situation absolutely not One thing
changed and I look at my life, I look like a whole different human being. It's like I was rebirthed into this new
version of me. New language, new look, new bank account, new lifestyle, new new everything. I turned my life around. I
was a whole different human being and I was okay with it. It's crazy because I even have more friends that were
probably more talented than me, but because they loved they loved safety. Today, talent did not serve
them. I was not the most talented. They were definitely more talented than me, but because I was the craziest, always
open to taking risks person, that's exactly what got me to where I am today. And that bring me to my next point,
which is you have to network with people and be around people that have what you want. That energy, I promise you, that
proximity, it just almost rubs off on you. I made sure all my friends that were broke, I stopped chilling with
them. That might be harsh, but I stopped chilling with them because I'm like, they do these broke jokes and I say,
"Haha, yes." And that's me agreeing to a broke person joke. A broke mindset joke. And it's not even about money. I'm
talking about broke as in mentality, as in staying in the comfort, as in not wanting so much out of this life and
going after everything that you want. Forget money. I'm talking about broke this. You start doing the same things
that they're doing, living the same way. You start even like thinking like, oh, maybe I do want too much. Maybe I should
just slow down, not work so hard. You're literally the average of the five people you're around. I know we say that all
the time, but it is very true. So I started hanging around people only that are entrepreneurs that are successful
business people that have something going on for themselves and every single day they're grinding, they're hustling,
they're doing something about their life, they're not just chilling and doing the same things and expecting a
different type of lifestyle. And that brings me to my last point is the faster you accept and you acknowledge that
everything absolutely everything in your life is fully your fault the faster you will get to where you actually want. If
you keep pointing fingers you will literally not have that power. Just like I talked about once you take
responsibility like you know what my bank account is my fault. Me not being, you know, knowing all this information
about business, my fault. Because information is everywhere out there. Me being lazy and not doing everything that
I said I'm going to do, it's my fault. You can come from a broke family, but you have to understand that a broke
family should not come from you. Make sure you number one track your money. Have awareness of what do you actually
do every single day. Look at your habits. Look at your money spending, your money making skills. Look at the
time that you spend doing nonsense. Switch all of that. Be very intentional about your life. Be very intentional
about how much you want to make, how we're going to get there, who's going to be around us. Nothing in my life is ever
casual. And this is why I got to where I am because I don't like casual. No casual friends, no casual businesses, no
casual money. I like serious everything. So get serious about your life. Let us know if one of these points gave you
that aha moment like, "Oh my god, I know I need to stop doing this one thing." Me personally, I did all of these things.
And once I stopped and switched and changed my daily habits, that's when life fully changed. And it can change
very, very fast if you did the right thing. So I think my friend is here. Where is she? Late probably because
guess what girls do? I'm here babe. Where are you? She's going to be like, I made 5 minutes. Oh my god. Last time I
made her wait an hour, so I cannot say nothing. I was at the doctor getting a facial,
getting Botox and I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, babe. I'm almost done." She's like, "Okay, I'm
going to come." She came and she waited literally an hour and she ripped me apart. Kept calling me, "Babe, where are
you? Why would you tell me to come?" "Oh my, babe, I swear I thought I'm going to be done earlier." Like, you know, the
doctor looked at me and she's like, "You know what? We need to do a facial. We need to do a mask. We need to do this.
What do you want me to say?" No. And she was I'm like, "Wow, you're yelling at me. That's crazy." So, I cannot say
much. I cannot be like, "Calm down now. Don't make me wait for another couple weeks. I need to like wait for her so I
can feel better about making her wait at least an hour." She said, "I need 10 minutes." Oh my god. Hi, friends.
>> How are you? You're in the vlog. Well, you're in the video. That's the friend that we've been waiting for. And she's
here. >> And I'm always late. >> No, it's okay, babe.
>> How are you? >> Good. How are you, babes? >> Very good, thank you very much.
>> Let's go have 1,000 million adventures. Oh my god, I almost went there. >> Oh my god. But anyway, guys, let us know
in the comments. What do you relate to the most? And what is the one thing that you have to stop doing to become that
rich girl forever? Forever. Anyway, I will see you guys in the next video. Chowo chia.
Heads up!
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